Sridhar Tayur Ford Distinguished Research Chair University Professor of Operations Management Carnegie Mellon University Sridhar Tayur is the Ford Distinguished Research Chair and University Professor of Operations Management at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University and his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Madras (where he is a Distinguished Alumnus Award winner). He is an INFORMS Fellow, a Distinguished Fellow of MSOM Society and has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He has been a visiting professor at Cornell, MIT and Stanford. Academic: He has published in Operations Research, Management Science, Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Stochastic Models, Queuing Systems, Transportation Science, POMS, IIE Transactions, NRLQ, Journal of Algorithms and MSOM Journal. He has served on the editorial boards of Operations Research, MSOM Journal, Management Science, IIE Transactions and POMS. He served as President of MSOM Society. He has co-edited Quantitative Models for Supply Chain Management (1998) and Handbook of Healthcare Analytics (2018). He has been a finalist for the Lanchester Prize and is an Edelman Laureate. He has won the Healthcare Best paper Award by POMS and the INFORMS Pierskalla Award for best paper in Healthcare. He has won the Gerald L. Thompson Teaching Award in the B.S. Business Administration Program, the George Leland Bach Excellence in Teaching Award given by MBA students, the INFORMS Teaching Case award, and has been named as a ‘Top Professor’ by Business Week. Consulting and Executive Education: He has consulted for startups (such as Massive Incorporated, acquired by Microsoft), several Fortune 500 companies – Intel, Deere, Caterpillar, ConAgra Foods for example – and has been a consultant to the firm of McKinsey & Company. He has conducted executive education for Cisco, McKinsey, Schibsted and others. Software Entrepreneurship: He is the founder (and served as CEO) of the software company SmartOps [acquired by SAP] which created the market for Enterprise Inventory Optimization (EIO) software. He has won the Carnegie Science Center award for Innovation in Information Technology. SmartOps is the subject of a Darden Case Study (distributed by HBS). Healthcare: He is the founder of a social enterprise, OrganJet, to help provide access to affordable multiple listing for kidney (and liver) transplants (and includes GuardianWings program to assist those that are not insured). OrganJet and GuardianWings are subjects of a HBS Case Study. His work on Organ Transplantation has been covered by several medical publications and media outlets, including The New England Journal of Medicine, AJT, Forbes, The Guardian, CBS News, VICE, Huffington Post, ARS Technica as well as in an article profiling him in The Atlantic, has attracted the attention of several luminaries including Nobel winner Alvin Roth and garnered an invitation to the President Obama’s White House Summit on Organ Donation (in 2016). Board Positions, Advisory Boards, Investor and Limited Partner (in PE and VC): He served on the board of Orchestro (acquired by E2Open) and on the advisory boards of CCG Inc. (PE firm, where he was also a LP) and a not-for-profit, TrueSpark, and on the Board of Overseers at WGBH. He currently serves on the advisory boards of MITRA Biotech, Zenrez (also an investor), Onera (also an investor), Neotribe Ventures (also a LP) and Vocal ID, on the Board of Directors of Transplant Interface and Heritage Valley Health System. Philanthropy: In 2014, he made a $1 Million donation to Carnegie Mellon University towards the “Tepper Quad” and in 2016 endowed an Institute Chair at IIT-Madras. He has been a donor to RIP Medical Debt, Smile Train, Children International, Plan International and Childreach, among others. He has funded early stage neuroscience research on rare genetic diseases. He has funded independent film festivals and documentaries, as well programs that combat humantrafficking..